Chapter
Publicly Available
Frontmatter
-
Antoine de Baecque
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments ix
- Contents xi
- Translator's Note xv
- Introduction. The Body of History 1
-
PART I. The State-Body: Metaphor of the Transition of Sovereignty
- 1. The Defeat of the Body of the King: Essay on the Impotence of Louis XVI 29
- 2. Sieyes, Doctor of the Body Politic: The Metaphor of the Great Body of the Citizens 76
-
PART II. The Narrative-Body, or History in Fiction
- 3. Regeneration: The Marvelous Body, or The Body Raised Upright of the New Revolutionary Man 131
- 4. The Monsters of a Fantastic Aristocracy, or How the Revolution Embodies Its Horrors 157
- 5. David., or The Struggle of Bodies 183
-
PART III. The Body as Spectacle: The Flesh of Political Ceremony
- 6. The Great Spectacle of Transparency: Public Denunciation and the Classification of Appearances 209
- 7. The Bodies of the Political Carnival 247
- 8. The Offertory of the Martyrs: The Wounded Body of the Revolution 280
- Conclusion. A Few Bodies to End (the Revolution) 309
- Notes 327
- Index 359
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments ix
- Contents xi
- Translator's Note xv
- Introduction. The Body of History 1
-
PART I. The State-Body: Metaphor of the Transition of Sovereignty
- 1. The Defeat of the Body of the King: Essay on the Impotence of Louis XVI 29
- 2. Sieyes, Doctor of the Body Politic: The Metaphor of the Great Body of the Citizens 76
-
PART II. The Narrative-Body, or History in Fiction
- 3. Regeneration: The Marvelous Body, or The Body Raised Upright of the New Revolutionary Man 131
- 4. The Monsters of a Fantastic Aristocracy, or How the Revolution Embodies Its Horrors 157
- 5. David., or The Struggle of Bodies 183
-
PART III. The Body as Spectacle: The Flesh of Political Ceremony
- 6. The Great Spectacle of Transparency: Public Denunciation and the Classification of Appearances 209
- 7. The Bodies of the Political Carnival 247
- 8. The Offertory of the Martyrs: The Wounded Body of the Revolution 280
- Conclusion. A Few Bodies to End (the Revolution) 309
- Notes 327
- Index 359